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CAF Teaching Fellowship


CAF Teaching Fellowship – Course Development in Black Digital Humanities

The CAF Teaching Fellowship at Texas Southern University supports faculty in designing courses that explore Black studies disciplines, including Communication, History, Sociology, Political Science, and English, integrated with digital humanities. Fellows receive a $5,000 stipend for course development, with funding provided based on progress reports and final submission to the CAF Project Director.

This fellowship emphasizes community-engaged learning, offering faculty guidance from the CAF Project and Research Directors to align courses with Black Digital Humanities scholarship and TSU’s academic standards. Deliverables include a syllabus, assignment materials, and curriculum committee submissions, ensuring courses contribute to academic programs and certificates at the Center for Africana Futures.

Application Deadline: May 24, 2023  
Notification: June 7, 2023   
Deliverable Due: December 15, 2023  
Stipend Disbursement: January 2024

Apply for faculty teaching fellows by clicking here.

Eligibility: Faculty (contingent and tenure-line) and librarians at Texas Southern University. Graduate Students are not eligible for this program.   
  
Recipients must agree to share their work with the Center for Africana Futures and the Texas Southern Community. Teaching Fellows must also agree to serve as reviewers and mentors for future teaching fellows.

CAF is part of DEFCon

DEFCon is a consortium that supports the growth of the digital ethnic studies field, which brings together critiques of racial capitalism, community-engaged approaches to research, and digital humanities methodologies. Complementing work in discrete fields like Black and Latinx digital humanities, digital ethnic studies draws on the affordances of ethnic studies, an interdisciplinary examination of difference that foregrounds race, ethnicity, and indigeneity through a comparative framework. Through digital methods, digital ethnic studies explore connections and divergences between people of color and Indigenous people in the U.S., articulated through a range of digital genres, including digital archives, social media, and data visualization. Moreover, digital ethnic studies places at its forefront the community-engaged research practices that are integral to ethnic studies and its commitment to research with (not on) communities.

Please direct questions to Toniesha L. Taylor (CAF Program Director) at toniesha.taylor@tsu.edu.